diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index c5cca75cfc..0145750412 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -110,6 +110,9 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
     HADOOP-6462. Target "compile" does not exist in contrib/cloud. (tomwhite)
 
+    HADOOP-6402. testConf.xsl is not well-formed XML. (Steve Loughran
+    via tomwhite)
+
 Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/src/test/core/org/apache/hadoop/cli/testConf.xsl b/src/test/core/org/apache/hadoop/cli/testConf.xsl
index b7788adc07..7e7fc0e830 100644
--- a/src/test/core/org/apache/hadoop/cli/testConf.xsl
+++ b/src/test/core/org/apache/hadoop/cli/testConf.xsl
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 <!--
    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
@@ -14,7 +15,6 @@
    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
    limitations under the License.
 -->
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 
 <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">